[ some "oddly noisy" Baldwin 45" Hamilton actions..........]

[Avery Todd]

Guy,

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the black ones didn't make the noise.

Avery

At 08:15 PM 11/10/05, you wrote:
>Albert,
>     With all things snug, noise might be Corfam butt leather or 
> back check covers. Are they black? Seems like 35 years might be too 
> old for that. Newer Baldwins also have an odd click from the bridle 
> tape vinyl on the post. Yours is too old for that, also. Also need 
> to check let-off rails and action brackets. If it was cooked by an 
> uncontrolled dehumidifier rod, it's also possible that the main 
> rail is partially delaminating. Best advice would be to book a 
> couple of hours for catch-up maintenance.
>
>Regards,
>Guy Nichols, RPT
>
>
>At 08:54 PM 11/10/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>>caught in the filters..I believe the sender meant to send it to 
>>pianotech, so please include his address in your reply.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>-Phil, admin for the week
>>
>>
>>
>>-------- Original Message --------
>>Subject:        [admin] some "oddly noisy" Baldwin 45"/hamilton 
>>actions..........
>>Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2005 18:39:09 -0600
>>From:   Albert Thomas <thomaaw@auburn.edu>
>>To:     <pianotech-owner@ptg.org>
>>
>>
>>
>>Situation:   Occasionally I find an extraordinarily noisy Baldwin/studio
>>action.........sounds as though every shank-to-hammer glue bond is
>>broken,  every hammer flange is loose,  etc.........
>>To briefly describe it using a recent occurrence instead of a
>>longwinded generic summary :  a recent customer so far out of town that
>>the time zone  included mention of the last century;  it is the last
>>piano on that time-warp tour, and running far into after-dark hours
>>"right smack" in the greatroom of the jolly and noisy family, I
>>encounter the bizarre noisemaker ("of course they have never noticed it,
>>God bless 'em indeed though, great locally-successful people trying to
>>feed me supper, cookies and sodas")  The basic "harp" of the approx.- 35
>>year old Hamilton was very good, but the action parts were odd in that
>>the shanks were spinet-diameter;  all hammer flanges were loose but I
>>tightened them;  not one single shank-to-hammer glue joint was broken
>>although most glue joints were obviously on the short side of
>>quality-control;  there was a functioning DamppChaser dehumidifier with
>>No Humidistat (they are adamant to have that corrected,  they understood
>>the explanation perfectly.........the first such explanation they had
>>ever received) etc. but......
>>    the bottom line,   more than 50 % of noise remained after repairing
>>one jack stirrup brokengluejoint , tightening all hammer flanges,  and
>>...........however having to tune and leave in some hurry without a
>>total research of the rest of the action..........my fault and time
>>fault.........
>>        any suggestions?   happens rarely enough that I have failed to
>>do follow-up research during several occurrences over so many
>>years.........I need a tightly-focussed suggestion if possible,  since
>>it is easier to find every problem in an institutional piano serviced
>>often, but easy for me to forget to research the outlying time-pressure
>>pianos seen only once or twice in a lifetime............
>>
>>Albert Thomas,  Associate Member PTG,   Bach. Mus. and Med., Master of
>>Music Piano Performance
>>Auburn University
>>Albert Thomas Piano Service,  Auburn, Alabama;   Compton, Arkansas
>>
>>
>>
>>
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